North v. Joslin’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2010
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Palmer v. Oakley · Chase v. Hathaway · Smith v. Rice · Eslava v. Lepretre · McCurry v. Hooper
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the proceedings had in both the circuit and probate courts for the county of Washtenaw in the premises be reversed, annulled, and set aside, and Mrs. North be restored to the possession and control of all her property, including that of which she has been deprived under said proceedings, and all accumulations thereon which would have accrued to her had no proceedings in the case been instituted, and her estate must not be charged with any costs, charges, fees, or expenses in consequence of such proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howe v. North““Neither was there ever any decree made by the judge of probate adjudging Mrs. North to be mentally incompetent to take care of herself and manage her property. This was necessary, and the adjudication should appear of record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.